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It’s provably load-bearing.

My mom died today. —The Stranger, Camus

I think the advent of world models is going to open up a lot of interesting 3D applications with related graphics & rendering challenges. That intersecting with WebGPU general avai…

The most cited research studied wolves' affect on elk populations in Yellowstone restoring riparian habitats(1). Wolves' impact on the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in de…

A healthy wolf population is the proper (trophic cascading) solution to the tick epidemic.

Higharc | REMOTE | Full-time | https://higharc.com Thousands of homes have been built with Higharc since 2022. We’re changing the way homebuilders design, sell, estimate, and build…

Funny, I just today merged our migration from Next (with turbopack, page router, ~200 pages) to Vite + Tanstack Router. Builds went from 2.5m to 25s. But even bigger was the improv…

Higharc | REMOTE | Full-time | https://higharc.com Thousands of homes have been built with Higharc since 2022. We’re changing the way homebuilders design, sell, estimate, and build…

Now animate it with SMIL

Bravo, that’s a seriously impressive undertaking, and a great demonstration of the augmentation potential in agentic coding. There’s so much focus on replacing entry-level work it …

A filter for how it looks in 3+ years too would be nice.

Everywhere has its south.

https://pcmaffey.com I write to “poison” AI with my ideas. Mostly about software development. And being human in a computer world. I'm a Staff Engineer... I make games on the side.…

It’s an interesting choice to frame this initiative around “open AI”. That’s quite a battle to pick right out of the gate.

Thanks, it’s a few years old. Rereading it now it’s kind of incoherent. But of primary importance now I think is the idea of making software (and systems) resilient, self healing. …

I’m legit curious what you think about (Origins of Agile in Japanese Stone Masonry) [ https://pcmaffey.com/origins-of-agile/ ]

Stories don’t exist on paper or even on screen. They exist in the space in between words in your mind.

From my post: > Staring at the errors in my CLI, I realized I did not want to use another framework. It's why I had already discarded the idea of switching to Astro. Twiddling arou…

A side project for my side project: I built my own static site generator with React islands architecture and MDX support, using Bun. (Build your site from .mdx files, output only h…

Try base 6.